Where is religion taking you?

This article was bought to my attention this morning. This is the extremely sad story of a teacher in Sudan who may now possibly be put to death (although it appears she may just be sent home to the UK - here's hoping) for calling a teddybear Mohammed. The shocking thing is that she didn't even name it herself. She asked the boys in the class to come up with a name for the teddybear that one of the children had bought to school as part of a classroom project on animals. They of course chose the most common name for boys in Sudan - Mohammed. The rest is history, you can't call a teddybear Mohammed because this insults, yes that's right, it insults the 'prophet' Mohammed.

So here is a story of a woman who has taken considerable risk leaving the UK to teach the children of Sudan (probably at personal cost to her) and this is the kind of thanks they give her. If you think this is just a problem with Islam, then ask yourself how you would react if a child you know named a teddybear Jesus or Buddha?